Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geraniums. In Seattle, the Coast Guard caught a man carting away a mine he had found on the beach, asked him what he planned to do with it, subsequently announced: mines found on the beach must not be converted into flower pots...
Would April rival January? John L. Lewis, announcing that he wanted a new basic wage agreement, filed a 30-day strike notice on behalf of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers. Some 300,000 railroad engineers and trainmen, seeking a 25% wage increase, voted overwhelmingly for a nationwide strike against some 130 U.S. railroads...
...bustling company town of Anyox (pronounced Annie-ox) with an annual payroll of $1,500,000, a population of 2,500. There were three churches, a two-story wooden hotel, a nine-hole golf course on a slag fill in Granby Bay. But mounting costs shut down the mine in 1935, and Anyox shut up shop, too. Only a few watchmen remained. When lightning in 1942 fired the "tinder-dry slopes behind Anyox and roared down on the deserted town, most of its weathered buildings went up in flames...
...worker: "Watch what the hell you're doing or you'll fall and break your neck." Retorted the worker: "Well, it's my neck." Shot back Crowe: "Yes, it's your neck now, but as soon as you break it, it's mine...
...Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through...